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Have you ever purchased a product without actually seeing it? Most online retailers have some form of imagery to provide visibility into what you’re purchasing, but how many have brilliant product photos?

In fact, research has shown that 77% of online shoppers are ‘very to somewhat’ influenced by the quality of content (descriptions, copy, images, and tools) when making purchase decisions.

Unfortunately, manufacturers today often provide poor or limited photography and video assets if any at all, meaning that every online retailer has to reshoot the product images they want for their website.

In the early days of social media luxury brands attracted huge followings simply because people liked to be associated with aspirational companies.

I naively thought that those days had passed, but it would appear that luxury fashion brands are still a big draw on social.

It could be that the likes of Chanel and Dior have outstanding content and are excellent at engaging with their fans, but I thought it would be interesting to see if they’re getting by on reputation alone.

According to data from Socialbakers, luxury brands account for four of the top six most-popular fashion labels on YouTube.

Victoria’s Secret is far and away the most popular (453,000 subscribers), followed by Chanel (250,000), Dior (124,000), Quiksilver (117,000), Burberry (110,000) and Louis Vuitton (74,000).

According to a newly-published study published by Pew, nearly three-quarters of Facebook users polled said they didn’t know that Facebook generates and stores data about their interests and traits, and, when they came to learn this, over half indicated that they were uncomfortable with Facebook’s practice.

Mastercard, the third-largest credit card processor in the US, has announced a new policy that will make it more difficult for some businesses to automatically convert free trials into recurring subscriptions.